
On the edge of a new continent, you are responsible for connecting the wild region of Pineshore and its settlers to the rest of the world. Hire workers, gather resources, defend your venture from unknown dangers, and keep building the railway!
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Colony Sim, Singleplayer, Simulation.

On the edge of a new continent, you are responsible for connecting the wild region of Pineshore and its settlers to the rest of the world. Hire workers, gather resources, defend your venture from unknown dangers, and keep building the railway!

Menorca Talaiotica
Menorca Talaiotica is a strategy game where you will face the same problems as the first inhabitants of the island of Menorca; obtain natural resources, water, shelter, food and survive the calamities.

The Colony
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Menorca Talaiotica is a strategy game where you will face the same problems as the first inhabitants of the island of Menorca; obtain natural resources, water, shelter, food and survive the calamities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.5%, Strategy 31%, Exploration 10.5%, Atmospheric 3.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 77.6%, Strategy 22.4%
Another Dead World is a simulation-driven game where the world lives on its own. NPCs trade resources, shape the economy, and react to events. The player enters a living system that can grow, collapse, or be left to die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6%, Strategy 26.8%, Western 14.4% ★, Open World 6.8%, Survival 5.5%
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 76.8%, Strategy 23.2%
Explore realistic modern Tokyo in this 3rd-person open walking simulation. Stroll through authentic streets and quiet alleys, ride bicycles and drive vehicles, enter houses, and encounter locals living their daily lives. Take in the urban atmosphere, but remember: do not trust anyone.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.6%, Strategy 35.5%, 3D 6.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 74.8%, Strategy 21.6%, Atmospheric 1.7%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 66%, Strategy 15.1%, Open World 7.5%, Survival 6.8%, 3D 2.1%
Lead a slime colony through a living pixel world. Take direct control of individual creatures, gather food, expand your underground nest and face rival colonies. Explore unfamiliar biomes and fill your illustrated bestiary with discoveries.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59%, Strategy 23.6%, Exploration 8.8%, Survival 4.5%, Atmospheric 2.5%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 85.3%, Strategy 13%, Indie 1.7%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 65.9%, Strategy 26.7%, Survival 5.3%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 1%
Age of Beast is a real time dinosaur survival strategy game where you take control of a species and guide it through generations of survival on a massive tropical island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 58.4%, Strategy 32.9%, 3D 7.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Embark on a magical journey to harvest the rarest nectar in the world. Solve intriguing puzzles, explore enchanted forests, and uncover the sweet, ancient secrets of Blue Honey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 58.9%, Strategy 33.1%, 3D 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.3%, Strategy 35.6%, Survival 10.1%
The Crow King is a 2D side-scrolling action-strategy with a unique Handmade style, where you have to explore and gather resources to improve your strength until you lead your army to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.1%, Strategy 27%, Exploration 7.8%, Open World 4.7%, Survival 4.2%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 63.1%, Strategy 19.6%, Survival 9.9%, Indie 2.1%, Open World 1.9%
Insect Wars is a real-time strategy game where you lead an army of insects. Collect resources, build your colony, and destroy the enemy's to win. Scout the enemy, master different unit types and technologies, and face off in 1v1 or team-up against the AI.
Why similar: Colony Sim 58.7%, Strategy 34.3%, 3D 7%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 66.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Survival 6.5%, Open World 5.6%, Indie 2.2%
Be the Jissouseki in the Park!! Survive in the Park and make your own Family. Build Your own House, army, and Find your enemy that take your families life. Be Clever. Human's are Dangerous.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2%, Open World 14.6%, Strategy 13%, Exploration 10.7%, Survival 10%
Casae in Silva is a puzzle-based horror game with two Research Journalists that thought their adventures were getting stale. Due to these discouraging feelings the two set out to visit a remote location, seeking the old thrill they used to feel. While discovering the secrets within the wilderness.
Why similar: Strategy 46.7%, Survival Horror 26.6%, Exploration 15.7%, First-Person 9.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 73%, Strategy 27%
Villaging is a simple game of strategy where you reign on a kingdom and you need to manage your ressources and your inhabitant .But you will also get threat from other kingdom so you will need to make an army to fight against them .
Why similar: Colony Sim 61.7%, Strategy 35%, Singleplayer 2.1%, Indie 1.3%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, Strategy 36%, Survival 11.6%, Indie 4%
Control a western mining town and build it up to become the largest mining operation in the race for finding gold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.3%, Strategy 27.1%, Western 17.5% ★, Open World 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Use the daytime to search for treasures, trade with hermits, and investigate the strange experiences of former expedition members; Or with limited oxygen and lighting equipment, dive deep into the endless darkness of the seabed, escape the threat of unknown creatures, and seek powerful technology.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Survival Horror 21.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Exploration 10.1%, Open World 8.1%
Astro Wars is a Free Multiplayer Space Strategy Game. You start at the edge of the galaxy where you can build up, colonize and take over planets in competition with players from all over the world!
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.6%, Strategy 32.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Indie 1.3%
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49%, Strategy 29.1%, Exploration 9.5%, 3D 5.4%, Survival 3.9%
Wild West is a unique town-building simulator set in the Wild West. Your family completely controls the town of Tombstone. Sheriff Jeff keeps the peace, Mayor Norman builds the town, and businesswoman Rose runs the shops. Ensure the town’s prosperity and growth, and defend it against enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, Western 29% ★, Strategy 20.4%, 3D 3.4%, First-Person 2.7%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 9.6%, Exploration 6.7%
In Project Ark, the land has become uninhabitable after the apocalypse. The sea has become the only habitable place. Transform your ship into a floating city. Build, produce, and collect resources, research technologies, take care of your health, and rescue survivors!
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.3%, Strategy 23%, Exploration 7.8%, Survival 5.1%, 3D 4.6%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 62.6%, Strategy 18%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 4%, 3D 3.2%
Wild west simulator is a sandbox simulation game in the wild west hunt for pelts, dig for oil, manage the mine gather resources , and there is quests managing your colony entails a lot! you can also build your own settlement and develop your own colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 57.8%, Western 24.8% ★, Open World 9.2%, 3D 7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.5%, Strategy 31.4%, 3D 6.3%, Survival 5.8%, Atmospheric 3.1%
An SCP Facility Management game with strong visual stylings that allows you to run your own SCP Foundation Sites, capture anomalies, hire staff to contain and research them, and recontain them when they escape. Orchestrate multiple sites and guide your clandestine organization to success!
Why similar: Colony Sim 61.9%, Strategy 35.3%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 64.1%, Strategy 20.6%, Survival 7%, Open World 6.2%, Indie 1.2%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 69.5%, Strategy 16.7%, Survival 12%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
MARSBOUND is a survival game in sci-fi setting which combines elements of economic strategy and psychological thriller. The player assumes the role of an AI manager who must create the first Martian colony from scratch with Earth's brightest minds under their command.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.9%, Strategy 30.5%, Survival 9.4%, 3D 5.4%, Indie 1.1%
A turn-based 4X strategy game inspired by classic colony-building games. Explore a new continent, expand across a hex-based world map, and build a network of production settlements directly on the frontier.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9%, Strategy 26.8%, Western 11.5% ★, Exploration 8.7%, 3D 4.9%
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.9%, Strategy 28.9%, Exploration 10.1%, 3D 5.3%, Atmospheric 3.2%
KNIGHTS and MERCHANTS recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard.
Why similar: Strategy 74.8%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.8%, Strategy 19.5%, Survival 10.4%, Exploration 7.2%, Atmospheric 2.3%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.1%, Strategy 19.7%, Open World 9.6%, Exploration 9.5%, 3D 4.2%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.4%, Strategy 21.1%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10%, 3D 1.7%
Stack Epoch is a settlement-building card game. Stack cards to gather resources, construct buildings, and battle various creatures. Stack character cards on trees to get wood. Combine wood with other cards to craft huts and expand your territory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 58.1%, Strategy 18.4%, Survival 11.3%, Exploration 10%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Pixel Vale is a medieval fantasy city-builder game, focused on building up your city while managing external threats. Fight or trade with other cities, explore through the fog of war, and defend against goblin raids. Research new buildings to expand and keep your citizens happy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.7%, Strategy 16.8%, Exploration 12.1%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 6.5%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 66.5%, Strategy 22.4%, Survival 10%, Singleplayer 1.1%
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49%, Strategy 16.8%, Exploration 12.6%, Survival 6.9%, Open World 5.7%
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.4%, Strategy 32.5%, Survival 8.5%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 67.4%, Strategy 18.2%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 3%, Indie 1.2%
The Silence After is a first-person atmospheric horror game where you play as a blind sole survivor following a distress signal through an apocalyptic reality, interacting with the environment and using your synesthetic ability to perceive sound as color to progress and avoid death.
Why similar: Strategy 54.8%, Exploration 20.3%, 3D 12.1%, First-Person 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.2%
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47%, Strategy 13.9%, Exploration 10.5%, Open World 9.5%, Survival 8.2%
Build the world's first SKYTROPOLIS, a vertical mega city where you control its design, architecture, economy, and sustainability! Play both on desktop or in virtual reality.
Why similar: Colony Sim 96.9%, Indie 3.1%
Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.
Why similar: Colony Sim 63.1%, Strategy 20.7%, Survival 8.5%, Exploration 7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 61.1%, Strategy 14.6%, Survival 10.6%, Exploration 9.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54%, Strategy 20.4%, Survival 11.3%, Exploration 7.1%, Atmospheric 2.9%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 67.5%, Strategy 30.3%, Atmospheric 1%, Singleplayer 0.7%, Indie 0.4%
Build and defend a medieval colony in a vast, infinite voxel world. Gather resources, craft gear, train citizens, and survive brutal zombie hordes. Dig deep, explore wild biomes, and turn a handful of survivors into a thriving settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 58.6%, Strategy 19.1%, Survival 10.2%, Exploration 6.9%, 3D 4.3%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 69.6%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Open World 3.8%, Exploration 3.1%
A minimalist roguelite colony sim about one family on the American frontier, 1609–1900. Build a homestead, survive the lean years, and pass the ranch down through the generations — every year ends with a family council shaped by what really happened.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.4%, Western 13.9% ★, Strategy 12.9%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9%
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.9%, Strategy 22.4%, Survival 12.1%, Exploration 8.5%, Indie 2.4%
Build a steampunk colony, put robots to work and connect a growing network of steam-powered machines. Mine resources, research new technology and defend your Steam Core when night falls. Play solo or join friends in online co-op.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.1%, Strategy 27.3%, Exploration 9.7%, 3D 5.6%, First-Person 5.2%